Steven Sinofsky, vice president of Windows and Windows Live department at Microsoft acknowledges that the UAC (User Account Control) was (and still is not) not optimal and its default is to be gone too far. Also according S. Sinofsky, the reason for the establishment of the UAC was to better protect the user, and this attention is commendable, but the establishment still suffers from flaws of youth.

It is now official that Microsoft says that the UAC is too intrusive, and it is one of the elements that will be reviewed and corrected in Windows Seven. Moreover, in pre-beta version of the new operating system, there are already four levels of settings for UAC. Proof that Microsoft can also recognize and correct its errors.

A complicated name for this laptop, equipped with a 14.1″ screen, an AMD Athlon processor running at 1.6GHz, 1GB of RAM, a 160GB hard drive, WiFi, a DVD burner, an ATI Radeon X1200, 2 USB ports, all for $430. Cheap is the word…

Here is the advertisement broadcasted by the SoftBank operator in Japan to sell the Apple iPhone.

The almost clone of the HP Mini 1000, we showed you the other day, and then which shows no many differences with its model. The logo Compaq has obviously taken the place of the HP logo, an HSDPA option is available, the Mini 700 will be available from December, while we must wait until February 2009 for the HP 1000 Mini (at least in England), and it will be Finally of £100 cheaper (than the HP if you’ve followed).

Despite the financial crisis and if you still are full of money, you can still invest in this PC with a case all in gold. From the technical side, the beast offers a Kontron motherboard, an Intel Core 2 Duo, a video card NVidia 8600GT with 512MB of VRAM, 4GB RAM, 1TB of hard drive, WiFi, the USB and Firewire and 7.1 sound. No price for the moment.

ViewSonic has announced its new LCD display, the VX2260wm, which offers a diagonal of 22″, 16/9 format, a resolution of 1920×1080 pixels, a dynamic contrast of 10000:1, speakers of 2×1.5 W, a line input and a headphones output in jack format as 3.5 mm, VGA connectivity, DVI and HDMI and a response time of 2ms.

SoftBank, definitely very active in Japan, has announced the arrival of Samsung Player Addict in the sushis’ land , except that it will offer additional small things. Indeed, in the menu, small things and more, we can see the TV tuner 1-Seg but a touch screen 3.3″ with a resolution of 800×480. In addition, the red version will be available with of white and black versions.

It’s in the New York Times we learn that Opera engineers had actually developed an iPhone version of their internet browser, but Apple has refused to validate it because it was in competition with Safari…

The irony in all this is that there are some applications that have an internal browser but have gone on the AppStore, so that does not offer a direct competition to Safari.
However, I can understand for softwares that transforms your iPhone in modem because it comes into conflict with some partnership (and still …), all there, I don’t want… Besides absolutely impose Safari, so good it may be.

About RAM, dedicated to Intel X58 motherboards, displaying 1.375/1.8/1.86/2GHz and available in kit of 3×1GB. Prices range from $132 to $334, depending on the chosen configuration… The price to pay for a Kingston product…

And it’s for a good cause, when you purchase the RED version of this new version, between $50 and $80 will be donated to research against AIDS. Apart from that, the XPS One is equipped with a 24″ screen of 1080p, JBL speakers and a subwoofer, with an Intel Core 2 quad core, an NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT and Vista Home Premium or Ultimate. Prices range from $1699 to $2299, depending on the configuration.